On 30 June 2010 15:13, Mike Godwin <mnemo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sam Klein writes: > > I do think there are more risks inherent in this sort of growth than > > are listed in the 'potential risks' section -- for instance, > > "inability to acculturate new staff due to aggressive growth" -- and > > we should be alert to these risks to avoid them. > > > > Just to be clear about this, I read Sam here as saying something like > "there > is a potential risk that we will be unable to acculturate new staff as we > grow." This of course is true -- and it's even true when growth is slow! > But in practice the Foundation takes this risk very seriously, and takes > pains to promote the acculturation of new staff, not just to Foundation > culture but to the larger community. One way we do this is by sending new > staff to Wikimania, if it makes sense to do so, and/or promoting new > staff's interaction with the community in other ways. Attendees at > Wikimania > this year will see a number of staff who haven't been there before -- > everyone is urged to engage staff members in conversations about our work > together, or other topics of common interest. (I'll be there too -- first > Wikimania since Taiwan!) > > > --Mike > ___________________ >
Will the new staff be wearing some kind of identifying marker so we can spot them? Perhaps a silly hat? Or, could they walk around carrying a board that says "Talk to me about copyright edge-cases"! 'm not so much sure that that would be good acculturation but it would definitely be a baptism by fire :-) Seriously though, perhaps the opening keynote or some other time could be used to ask new staff to stand up and be briefly introduced? -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
